A journey towards Atomic Design on Android

This expansion…

ISMIR 2018 HAMR @ DEEZER HQ

In 2018, the September rally is pretty exciting :) For the first time in its history, Deezer is really proud to be partnering with ISMIR, the world’s leading research forum on processing, searching, organizing and accessing music-related data.

A distributed computation system for deep learning experiments with Docker Compose and RabbitMQ.

HAMR@ISMIR2018 — Deezer HQ

We hosted the 2018 ISMIR edition of the HAMR Hackathon. It was awesome, people from all over the world collaborated on fun and innovative research topics during two days. A lot of very cool projects emerged. Most of them won’t stick but some will, and that -you have to admit…

Improving your ingestion performance using the multidisciplinary approach

When it comes to solving a problem, developers often tend to use the technologies they’re comfortable with — the technologies they work with on a daily basis. Most of the time this is fine — we work within a specific scope in which this technology makes sense and has already…

Computing Royalties at Deezer

Deezer, as a streaming service, needs to pay royalties to music providers (record companies that make their music available on Deezer) as well as publishers and copyright collective management organisations so that the music you listen to gets payed at the right price according to the number of times it…

Let’s meet at Android Makers 2017

Next week, Deezer will be partner of Android Makers 2017. Several of our Android engineers will join the event to enjoy the technical sessions, workshops, and debates, learn from others and discuss about our mobile technical challenges and opportunities.

Updating Kubernetes CA certificates the hard way

So buckle up; it might be a bumpy ride! The hard way yes, but automated! At Deezer, Kubernetes has…

Deezer at ICASSP 2017

I went to ICASSP in New Orleans to present a (small) part of the research done at Deezer in the R&D team. It was the opportunity to exchange with the community and gather much valuable knowledge and ideas. Our work was about using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to solve a…

Back from Kubecon & CloudnativeCon Europe 2021: key learnings and takeaways

At Deezer, we think that taking part in the community is of utmost importance. Contributing to open source projects is the best way to do so, but participating in community events should not be overlooked. And when you work on Kubernetes platforms like we…

Lifting our 2,000 favorite tracks limit

Co-authored by Virgile Carron Adding tracks to favorites is one of Deezer’s most important features. It’s been here for ten years now. It’s the best way to save the content that you love and above all to help us suggest awesome music according to your tastes. It’s also the essence…

Matching Albums through Cover Art Fingerprinting

Women’s Voices — A Product Story

Part. 1: Women’s Voices — A Product Story Part. 2: Women’s Voices — A Brand Story Part. 3: Women’s Voices — A Data Story Part. 4: Women’s Voices — A…

What’s Right with Errors

You’re enjoying your app when suddenly an error message pops up, reading “Error: Something went wrong” Or you’re developing a new feature and attempting to interact with this outdated API that just returns NO when you call [Obscure.sharedManager doYourMagic] … And you’re frustrated!

“Hack as you are” — Story of a Hackathon at Deezer

Today, more and more employees decide to work for a company not only to climb the career ladder or for financial reasons, but in order to…

I went to a conference on tech leadership, and you should too

In the past few weeks, I got a lot of those. For some reason in our community (or at least, in the subset of it I am currently involved with), a tech conference should be about learning actual technical skills (this…

Private libraries in Android — how to manage them.

Part 1: Private libraries in Android — why you should consider it Part 2: Private libraries in Android — how to manage them In the first part of the series, we talked about the benefits of private libraries. On top…

Deezer Research @RecSys 2017 — 11th ACM Recommender Systems Conference

A key aspect of Deezer product is providing our users with a personalized listening experience. To pick the perfect tracks for the right moment, a wide variety of signal processing and machine learning algorithms are involved in Deezer’s…

Are you chilling right now? Contextualizing music recommendations

As you may know, Sonar Festival is one of the biggest electronic music festivals in Europe and takes place every June in Barcelona. Alongside the festival, Sonar organizes a technical challenge as part of the Sonar +D. For this event, Sonar has partnered with…

Introducing an improved Deezer experience on Xbox: access your favorite songs directly while…

A little context The Xbox Guide By pressing the Xbox button on your controller, you access the Xbox Guide. This is…

From a few insights to a key feature

Product conception is based on a multitude of factors: data analytics, market research, benchmark, feedback from users/stores/customer support, user testing, intuition…And it always requires a few steps (and sometimes more than expected) to go from the initial concept or hypothesis to the final product pushed to all users. During my…

Some Fun with Deezer Data and Elastic Graph

A year ago the Elastic team released the Graph product, whose promise is to offer: a new way to discover, and explore, the relationships that live in your data. Here we will describe how Graph could be used on Deezer data to rebuild our “Similar Artists” feature. What do we…

FOSDEM 2018

What is FOSDEM? FOSDEM (Free and Open-source Software Developer’s European Meeting) is one of the largest European open-source and non-commercial conference, taking place annually at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. This year it offered more than 650 lectures presented by 600 speakers on 50 different themes. It’s a real place to share and…

Releasing Spleeter: Deezer R&D source separation engine

In a nutshell We are releasing Spleeter to help the research community in Music Information Retrieval (MIR) leverage the power of a state-of-the-art source separation algorithm. It comes in the form of a Python Library based on Tensorflow, with pretrained models for 2, 4 and 5 stems separation. Spleeter will be presented…

Focus and Contrast

The Deezer logo as seen by someone with Protonapia (Red-Green Color-blindness). This image was created using the Chrome extension ChromeLens, which allows you to view a website as seen by someone with a variety of visual conditions, from color-blindness to those with partial sight. In the last article, we looked…